Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V:a few early links

This week's special editorial and special pleading:I will try to gather the usual suspects (which is to say, valued contributors and valiant fellow-travelers) to this weekly gathering of links to reviews of underappreciated or at least not terribly widely-seen work...but it might well be delayed (in final form) today, as my parents are facing a dual set of crises which, like most in this country devoted to making everyone pay for human frailty with their everything in their material lives (at least), might bankrupt them and us, meaning my brother and myself. Alzheimer's isn't a disease that Medicare will pay to address or treat with, for example...and why should it? How trifling few Americans suffer from such an exotic and rarely-seen thing...and certainly no one can gainsay the current attempt to hand the insurance companies in the US even more money than they already extort, rather than admitting that a nation that beggars its families. at least those who seek better than warehouses for aging relatives to rot in, is a nation not working correctly, and a president who, rather than actually seeking to set up a reasonable healthcare system that migh rival those of such countries as Canada or Germany, one which is basically not propped up by too many more tax dollars (or euros) per capita than our own, is damned ignorantly by most of his adversaries for seeking to install (ever more eventually) Romneycare "socialism" rather than for being the kind of corporate tool that he and his administration are in nearly every way...well, you can see I'm a bit distracted this week. Checking facilities is a fair amount of work. Paying for them will be vastly, vastly moreso.

Todd, my siblings and I went through this process with my Mom three years ago. We had to sell her house, her car, and most of her possessions. My Mom is in the Alzheimer's wing of a very good nursing home. We used a lawyer who specialized in this growing area of law to make the transition from private pay to Medicaid seamless (worth every penny!). Good luck and if there's anything I can do, please don't hesitate to ask.

Dear Todd, I'm with Randy. Take care or yourself and your family first. Forget about us - we'll manage. I'm sending good thoughts your way and wishing you the very best of luck. Needless to say, my thoughts and prayers are headed your way.

Todd, I am sorry to hear about the difficulties your family is going through. My prayers and thoughts are with you and your loved ones and I really hope all goes well and the way you want them to. Look after yourself too.

Hoping to start getting my indexing back on track here, folks, given your kind responses (and continued posting by not a few in these memes)...it looks like the worst of my folks' travails might be behind us, at least temporarily.